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This article compares the transnational economic, political, and socio-cultural relations of Colombian migrants residing in two different locations in the United States. The vast majority of these migrants are middle class and originally from large urban areas, which differs from the typical rural origin migrants previously studied by transnational scholars. This study aims at testing some of the conclusions put forward by previous studies by looking at a group whose characteristics depart from earlier case-studies, using a methodology that overcomes some of the above limitations. To do so, They compare the transnational relations of Colombian migrants residing in two different locations in the United States. Literally, Colombia is a country on the move. At least 3-million Colombians, or 8 per cent of the national population of 37-million, now reside outside the national territory. An additional one million, or 3 per cent of the total, have been forcibly displaced within the national territory by an acute civil strife that has been ravaging the country for the last decade.